Cake or a cake

[wotcha]

I know 'cake' is a non-countable noin and we can count it by putting 'a piece of ..., a slice of..'

Then which is correct between two sentences below?

1. I made him a cake.

2. I made him cake.


1 sounds more natural to me but we cannot not put 'a' before cake.

???

[2006]

I know 'cake' is a non-countable noun and we can count it by putting 'a piece of ..., a slice of..' No, "cake" is countable.

They made 12 cakes today.

Then which is correct between two sentences below?

1. I made him a cake.

2. I made him cake.


1 sounds more natural to me but we cannot not put 'a' before cake. Yes, we can.
I bought her a beautiful birthday cake.
???

2006

[Tdol]

Cake can be both countable, as in 2006's examples, or uncountable (I eat too much cake), but it doesn't behave the same way as bread.